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Long-positioned and long-respected as a bestseller for the U.S. history survey course that focuses on political history as its framework, this textbook's most significant strength is its rich and distinctive prose. for this Eleventh Edition, co-authors Mark Carnes of Barnard College at Columbia University and John Garraty have collaborated to retell the story of Americas past. For the Eleventh Edition, the authors have written a new prologue on pre-Columbian America and the continents earliest human inhabitants, revised each chapter to incorporate recent research and scholarship, integrated more social and cultural history, selected many new illustrations and written informative new captions to engage students visually, introduced two new features, and updated the final chapter (33) to carry the story through the election of 2000, the beginnings of the Bush administration, and the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001, which have profoundly changed the American nation and its people.

Table of Contents

Maps and Graphs

xv

Features

xvii

To Our Readers

xix

Preface

xxi

PROLOGUE Beginnings

2

Passage to Alaska

3

(2)

The Demise of the Big Mammals

5

(1)

The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals, 9000 B.C.-1000 B.C.

6

(1)

The First Sedentary Communities, 1000 B.C.

7

(1)

Corn Transforms the Southwest

8

(2)

The Diffusion of Corn

10

(1)

Population Growth After 800 A.D.

11

(1)

Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture

12

(1)

The Collapse of Urban Centers

13

(2)

American Beginnings in Eurasia and Africa

15

(1)

Europe in Ferment

15

(3)

Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas

18

(30)

Columbus

20

(1)

Spain's American Empire

21

(1)

Indians and Europeans

22

(2)

Relativity of Cultural Values

24

(1)

Disease and Population Losses

25

(1)

Spain's European Rivals

26

(1)

The Protestant Reformation

26

(2)

English Beginnings in America

28

(1)

The Settlement of Virginia

29

(2)

``Purifying'' the Church of England

31

(1)

Bradford and Plymouth Colony

32

(4)

Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony

36

(1)

Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

37

(2)

Other New England Colonies

39

(1)

French and Dutch Settlements

39

(1)

Maryland and the Carolinas

40

(2)

The Middle Colonies

42

(3)

Indians and Europeans as ``Americanizers''

45

(3)

American Lives Tisquantum

34

(14)

American Society in the Making

48

(32)

What Is an American?

49

(1)

Spanish Settlement

50

(1)

The Chesapeake Colonies

51

(1)

The Lure of the Land

52

(1)

``Solving'' the Labor Shortage: Slavery

53

(1)

Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco

54

(2)

Bacon's Rebellion

56

(1)

The Carolinas

57

(2)

Home and Family in the South

59

(2)

Georgia and the Back Country

61

(1)

Puritan New England

61

(1)

The Puritan Family

61

(1)

Puritan Women and Children

62

(1)

Visible Puritan Saints and Others

63

(1)

Democracies Without Democrats

64

(1)

Dedham: A ``Typical'' Town

65

(1)

The Dominion of New England

66

(1)

Salem Bewitched

67

(3)

Higher Education in New England

70

(1)

Prosperity Undermines Puritanism

71

(1)

A Merchant's World

72

(2)

The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis

74

(1)

The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples

74

(1)

``The Best Poor Man's Country''

75

(1)

The Politics of Diversity

76

(1)

Rebellious Women

77

(3)

Re-Viewing The Past The Crucible

68

(12)

America in the British Empire

80

(32)

The British Colonial System

82

(1)

Mercantilism

83

(2)

The Navigation Acts

85

(1)

The Effects of Mercantilism

85

(2)

The Great Awakening

87

(1)

The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards

88

(1)

The Enlightenment in America

89

(1)

Colonial Scientific Achievements

90

(1)

Repercussions of Distant Wars

91

(3)

The Great War for the Empire

94

(2)

The Peace of Paris

96

(1)

Putting the Empire Right

97

(1)

Tightening Imperial Controls

98

(2)

The Sugar Act

100

(1)

American Colonists Demand Rights

100

(1)

The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling

101

(1)

Rioters or Rebels?

102

(1)

Taxation or Tyranny?

103

(1)

The Declaratory Act

104

(1)

The Townsend Duties

104

(1)

The Boston Massacre

105

(2)

The Pot Spills Over

107

(1)

The Tea Act Crisis

107

(1)

From Resistance to Revolution

108

(4)

American Lives Eunice Williams/Gannenstenhawi

92

(20)

The American Revolution

112

(28)

``The Shot Heard Round the World''

114

(1)

The Second Continental Congress

114

(1)

The Battle of Bunker Hill

115

(1)

The Great Declaration

116

(2)

1776: The Balance of Forces

118

(1)

Loyalists

119

(1)

Early British Victories

120

(1)

Saratoga and the French Alliance

121

(3)

The War Moves South

124

(1)

Victory at Yorktown

124

(1)

The Peace of Paris

125

(4)

Forming a National Government

129

(1)

Financing the War

130

(1)

State Republican Governments

131

(1)

Social Reform

131

(2)

Effects of the Revolution on Women

133

(1)

Growth of a National Spirit

134

(1)

The Great Land Ordinances

135

(1)

National Heroes

136

(1)

A National Culture

137

(3)

Re-Viewing The Past The Patriot

126

(14)

The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant

140

(30)

Border Problems

141

(1)

Foreign Trade

142

(1)

The Specter of Inflation

143

(1)

Daniel Shays's ``Little Rebellion''

144

(1)

To Philadelphia, and the Constitution

145

(1)

The Great Convention

145

(1)

The Compromises That Produced the Constitution

146

(4)

Ratifying the Constitution

150

(5)

Washington as President

155

(1)

Congress Under Way

156

(1)

Hamilton and Financial Reform

156

(3)

The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground

159

(1)

Revolution in France

159

(2)

Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties

161

(1)

1794: Crisis and Resolution

162

(1)

Jay's Treaty

162

(1)

1795: All's Well That Ends Well

162

(1)

Washington's Farewell

163

(2)

The Election of 1796

165

(1)

The XYZ Affair

165

(1)

The Alien and Sedition Acts

166

(1)

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves

167

(3)

Mapping the Past East Versus West: Political Conflict in the New Nation